Device



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IKN'ITTING DEVICE.

Application filed .Tuly 30, 1917.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERIKA G. BELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in knittingneedles, its object being to provide improvements in connection with the needle which will allow the loops formed in knitting to be picked up by the needle with the same facility that the loops in crocheting are picked up by the ordinary crochet hook and at the same time to provide an attachment which will not interfere with the continued knitting and the transfer of the loops from one needle to the other.

To this end my invention consists particularly of either providing a detachable hook member adapted to be removably secured upon one end-of the knitting needle where- 1 "by it will be capable of use in picking up the loops, said member` being removable from the needles so as 'tdbe placed upon one of the other eedles to convert said other needle into a pick-up needle, or, provide each knitting needle with a hook element at one end, the other end of the needle being formed in the ordina-ry manner to allow y the loops to be slipped therefrom in knitting.

.l the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification sis Figure 1 shows al pair of knitting needles having conoidal ends arranged in knitting position in connection with a flat piece of work, one of the needles being shown fitted with my improved attachment with the attachment shown in the act of picking up and forming a loop;

Fig. is a detail View, partly broken i' away, of my improved attachment.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an ordinary knitting needle having pointed work ends 2.

-As shown best in Fig. 2, my attachment consists of an extension member formed at one end with a hook 4 `and at the other end with-a central opening 5 to receive the pointed end of the knitting needle. As shown, I preferably taper the inner end of the opening 5 to provide a close lit for the l pointed end of the needle and provide the opening with an elastic or other suitable lining 6 to grip the needle. In utihzing my Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 31, 1920.

Serial No. 183,406.

attachment, it is simply fitted over the end of the knitting needle to form an extension thereof, the attachment being placed upon that needle which is being used to pick up and form the loops.

In knitting with the ordinary knitting needles, one of the needles serves as the pick-up needle, and as the pick-up needle receives the required number of loops, the next needle becomes a pick-up needle and the operation of knitting is thus carried out. In consequence, with the knitting needle as ordinarily employed, the loops have a tendency to slip olf the end of the pick-up needle making it particularly diicult for the amateur to knit and this diiiiculty in connection with knitting has resulted in increasing the popularity of crocheting at the expense of knitting on account of the ease of pickin up the loops by the ordinary hook employed in crochet work. In crochet work, as will u be understood, there is not the changing from needle to needle throughout the crochet work. operation but instead continued use of the same knitting member therefore making easy the use of a crochet hook.

By the use of my attachment, as will be evident, I am enabled to form each needle into a pick-up hook during the particular time that it is being used as the pick-up knitting member and at the same time restore the needle to condition as a straight, unhooked needle when it has received the desired number of stitches, thus allowing the loops to `be removed therefrom in the continued operation.

I do not restrict myself to the particular construction of attachment shown because, as will be evident, different methods may be employed to removably support the hook member upon the end of the needle. I define the scope of my invention in the following claim.

I claim:

An attachment for knitting needles comprising a sleeve having a hook at one end, and adapted to be slipped over and frictionally retained on the end of the needle.

vIn testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

R. A. Frsomn, H. D. DANGAN. 

